Description
Exploring the close relationship between the real, the symbolic and imaginary
About the Author
Maurice Godelier is a world-renowned anthropologist. Among the many honours he has received are the CNRS Gold Medal and the Alexander von Humbolt prize. His major works include The Making of Great Men, Metamorphoses of Kinship, The Enigma of the Gift, In and Out of the West, and more recently Levi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought.
Reviews
After 'Marx,' 'Durkheim' and 'Weber,' after the first fifty years of ethnographic and historical exploration, after Levi-Strauss and the next fifty years of ethnographic and historical research, what might the 'Frazer' of our times write? Maurice Godelier's gripping essay gives us an idea. Verging on a Jeremiad, drawing from predecessors near and far for a synthesis "in the grand style," The Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic probes our current state of learning. In so doing it sets the conditions for posing new questions for the next generations struggling not only to know the others and the pasts but to create societies for the future. The grand synthesizer, Godelier has given us another gift for the times. -- Frederick H. Damon, Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia
Book Information
ISBN 9781786637703
Author Maurice Godelier
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 170g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 11mm